"You guys stop it!"
"Stop!"
At this time, Zhang Chonggong, the right political advisor, and Li Ping, the deputy commander-in-chief, who were being led to be beheaded, also shouted loudly when they saw this.
After Zhang Chonggong and Li Ping were exposed by the Jinyiwei for luring the invaders into the customs, the Jinyiwei secretly escorted them to the capital with the cooperation of Zhang Jiayin, the governor of Jiliao, and Ma Jin, the commander-in-chief.
Now the two of them became emotional because they saw that their own children who were officials under Wang Bao and Zhou Sizhong were slaughtered because they came to the palace with Wang Bao and Zhou Sizhong.
Zhang Chonggong even wanted to kneel down to Ma Gui and others, and said in tears: "Please stop!"
Ma Gui looked at him and said: "Everyone is prosperous, and everyone suffers! Since you are all because of Yang Zhao, and you value Yang Zhao's kindness to you more than the kindness of the king, you value the personal gains he has given you." If it is more important than military merit and rewards, then of course it will all be lost because of Yang Zhao. A successful king or a defeated bandit, a man who dares to take action, why should he be begging?!"
"Ma, you said it easily!"
"Now it seems that you must have gone back on your word and harmed us, you despicable and shameless villain!"
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Ping angrily scolded Ma Gui.
Ma Gui snorted coldly and said: "You have no king and no father, and you want to force the palace to rebel. You are the despicable and shameless people!"
Li Ping couldn't help but blush, and held it in for a long time, unable to say a word.
Because he can't really talk about bullshit loyalty, interests are the first priority, and that will have no effect on Ma Gui.
Ma Gui also looked at him leisurely.
"That's it!"
"We just admit defeat!"
"If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have thought about joining the alliance with the invaders because I thought it would bring us greater benefits in the future by using the invaders to threaten the dignitaries of the capital!"
At the end, Li Ping said helplessly and smiled bitterly.
Not long after, the two were tied to the rack and began to be chopped.
While Ma Gui and Chen Lin were dealing with the rebels at Dongzhimen, Shen Shixing came to Zhang Hong who was on his way out of the palace and said:
"Interior Minister, please stay!"
Zhang Hong stopped when he saw this.
Zhang Jing, who was about to go on duty in the palace, also came over and walked to Zhang Hong and Shen Shixing.
Shen Shixing smiled at this moment and said: "The two father-in-laws must also know about tonight's turmoil. Since we are all people who participated in the New Deal when the Grand Master was in the country, it is difficult not to be fooled by the villain. I hate you, but the only thing we can rely on is the Holy One. If the Holy One is fine, we will be fine."
Zhang Hong and Zhang Jing nodded.
Zhang Jing also asked directly: "What exactly does Mr. Ge want to say?"
"Although great politics must be planned slowly, those who oppose great politics must be treated as enemies and bandits. It is better to treat them as villains first and then as gentlemen!"
Shen Shixing replied.
Zhang Jing nodded.
Zhang Hongze asked: "Are you worried about the emperor's safety?"
Shen Shixing nodded: "There are guards in royal robes nearby at this time. It is not a private meeting in the mansion, nor is it a private message. It is not a secret relationship with the two father-in-law. It is just for the safety of Your Majesty to speak out boldly. The two father-in-law must be careful when selecting people to enter the palace. It's not because I'm an old talker, and I want to teach my two father-in-laws to do things on purpose. The two father-in-laws are already mature people, but I'm just afraid that my two father-in-laws may not have considered everything comprehensively, and for the sake of your majesty's safety, I have to remind you."
"If you have anything to say, please speak directly."
Zhang Hong smiled.
Shen Shixing said: "When selecting people to enter the palace, it is best to first have clear origins, secondly not to choose eunuchs, and thirdly not to choose people who are literate. People who read the books of sages will become two types of people, either worse or better. , it is better to first select people who do not study to enter the palace, and then train them in the inner study hall."
"Very true."
Zhang Hong nodded.
Zhang Jingze said: "Our family has also remembered what Mr. Ge said."
Shen Shixing handed over and left.
Yu Youding followed up and asked, "Are you worried that something will go wrong in the palace?"
Shen Shixing nodded: "Since we have reached this tense situation, there is nothing wrong with being careful."
After hearing this, Yu Youding nodded and said: "Ten million taels! I thought that they would not ignore the friendship between scholars, and if they gave in and compromised, nothing would happen. But now that I think about it, even if they personally want to give up, they want to liquidate the Grand Master as a whole. People from the Party will not give up!"
"So, did the Duke suddenly propose new etiquette in front of the emperor?"
Shen Shixing asked.
Yu Youding folded his hands in front of his belly, shook his head slightly, and said with a smile: "It's not just for myself, but also for the world. With the current situation, it is inevitable that the old rituals and music will collapse. There must be new ones." Ritual music!”
Shen Shixing nodded: "The Confucian Temple needs to introduce a few new sages."
"I know who you want to seduce, but this matter will be settled slowly!"
Pan Cheng came over at this time and said something.
Shen Shixing and Yu Youding looked at Pan Cheng and then nodded.
"Let's go back to the official residence together. Starting tomorrow, the cabinet must do something good!"
Pan Cheng said something at this time.
Yu Youding nodded.
Shen Shixing smiled and asked: "It's so late and cold, where else can you go?"
Yu Youding said: "It just so happens that the latecomer still has a jar of Shaoxing daughter red that he brought to Beijing when he left Zhejiang. Why don't you go to where I am to go to Han?"
"It's hard to refuse kindness, so it's annoying!"
"By the way, can you decide on the distribution of the six subject examinations?"
Shen Shixing asked the two of them as he spoke.
Pan Cheng said: "Since I am the second assistant, I should take the lead."
"Why don't you call us if you have good wine?"
Zhang Xueyan, the Minister of Household Affairs, came over and asked with a loud smile.
Liu Yingjie, the Minister of Civil Affairs, pointed at Zhang Xueyan and smiled at Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers: "This gentleman has always had a sharp ear and eyesight!"
"Since we are all members of the public party, there is no need to distinguish between secular and Qingliu, nor do we need to distinguish between Zhejiang people, Wu people, and Yan people and Qi people. Why don't we really go together to disturb Mr. Yu's peace?"
Shen Shixing suggested with a smile at this time.
Xu Xuemo, the Minister of Rites, came over and asked, "Is it too disturbing?"
Yu Youding smiled and said: "It doesn't matter!"
So, this group of ruling officials came to the official residence together, chatting and laughing with each other.
What they don't know is that if Zhu Yijuning hadn't personally killed those who opposed the reform, wouldn't have liquidated Zhang Juzheng's party, and wouldn't have condoned the officials, they wouldn't have been able to do so. Moreover, because they were all related to Zhang Juzheng's reforms, they were also affected by those who opposed the New Deal. The resistance, but now we can live in harmony, will only be because of the intensification of party disputes as the liquidation intensifies, that is, the emergence of the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, the Qi Party, and the Donglin Party, making it impossible for them, scholar-bureaucrats from all over the world, to still be able to Get together and talk.
While Shen Shixing, Pan Cheng, Yu Youding, Zhang Xueyan, Xu Xuemo and others were chatting and laughing back to the official residence, Zhang Siwei, who was at the official residence, stood alone in the huge official residence courtyard in a daze.
Zhang Siwei glanced at a tree on his left, then at a tree on his right.
Lonely.
An unprecedented loneliness.
At this moment, it began to fill his mind, making his face become increasingly unhappy.
Because the emperor didn't summon him!
In the entire courtyard of the official residence, all the ruling ministers, except for Yang Zhao, who rebelled and rebelled, and Zhang Mengli, the minister of Dali Temple who was jailed for interceding for Yan Guan instead of rebelling, he was the only one. A dignified chief minister was not summoned!
As a result, he is now the only minister in the courtyard of Nuo Da's official residence.
At this time, the civil servants who had the same political views as him were either sentenced to death by the decree he personally drafted, or they would not come to see him because they despised his shamelessness and cowardice. As for those who did not care about these, most of them were deceived by Yang Zhao. Liao Yiyi is still in the Jinyi Guard Prison. Like Zhang Mengli, he was arrested by the Jinyi Guards because he did not listen to Shen Shixing and listened to Yang Zhao. He insisted on asking the emperor not to kill Yan Guan, but said that if he killed him, he would be too long to kneel.
Therefore, no other civil servants came to see him in the official residence compound.
The cold wind howled.
Cold branches fall.
Zhang Siwei also didn't expect that he, the first assistant, would reach this point.
When others are the first assistant, they are always busy.
And he is a nobody.
But people are social animals after all, and they also have vanity. Now that no one is flattering him, Zhang Siwei looks frustrated.
What makes Zhang Siwei even more frustrated is that despite his connivance, the officials still failed to achieve the purpose of liquidating Zhang Juzheng's party by impeaching Zhang Juzheng's party members.
Not long after.
Shen Shixing, Pan Cheng, Yu Youding, Zhang Xueyan, Xu Xuemo and a large number of other officials in power were returning to the courtyard of his official residence, chatting and laughing, and happened to pass by the official residence of his chief minister.
Zhang Siwei saw that there were so many people and they were so lively, and he felt jealous and disappointed for a moment.
But Zhang Siwei still habitually pretended to be humble and walked over to greet these people.
"hehe!"
But these people ignored him and only looked at him sideways.
Zhang Xueyan even smiled at him.
Even Shen Shixing ignored him as the chief minister and went to Yu Youding's official residence with other ministers, laughing again and again.
This was impossible in Zhang Juzheng's era.
"I remember that Mr. Yu had a very good five-character sentence."
"The Yellow River is about to burst with sorrow, and the setting sun is full of crows."
"There is no way out when the bank breaks, and there are no flowers in the depth of spring."
"The road is covered with dust and sand, and there is no home for the grass."
"Looking north to Chang'an, you can see how old you are."
"I know, it's called "Blocking the Wind and Send Friends to the Yellow River"
"Regardless of prizes, it's not as good as Zhang Budang's song from Ji Liao..."
…
Listening to the words of these ruling ministers talking about poetry, Zhang Siwei's face became even more lonely.
It seems that for him, the excitement belongs to others, and he only has a lonely moon on the corner of the eaves.
"It's too much!"
Zhang Siwei whispered something in a low voice, then went back to the room and asked:
"Has the second master received a letter from Yangzhou?"
